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Irene charges into New England, NYC escapes worst Irene charged into New England on Sunday as it weakened to a tropical storm after racing across a shuttered New York City and leaving behind a stunned U.S. East coast where at least  people died. Flooding is biggest threat in Irene's wake Hurricane Irene was downgraded to a tropical storm as it moved up the coast on Sunday, but stretches of the East Coast that had already been hit were now on alert for major flooding in coming days as rivers swelled from the storm's runoff. 6 years later, Lower 9th Ward still bleak In New Orleans' Lower 9th Ward, the grasses grow taller than people and street after street is scarred by empty decaying houses, the lives that once played out inside their walls hardly imaginable now. Calif. school chief gives up $800,000 in pay Some people give back to their community. Then there's Fresno County School Superintendent Larry Powell, who's really giving back. As in $800,000 â€" what would have been his compensation for the next three years. Town at epicenter of quake exhales as Irene passes Staring out at her shell-shocked congregation Sunday, the Rev. Marian Windel felt the need to reassure her flock that God was not "mad at us in any way." Soldier sought in 4 slayings found dead Police say a soldier being sought in the deaths of four people in Pennsylvania and Virginia has been found dead of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound. Ind. students use vouchers to flee public schools Weeks after Indiana began the nation's broadest school voucher program, thousands of students have transferred from public to private schools, causing a spike in enrollment at some Catholic institutions. Sept. 11 patriotism permeates Montana town Longtime guidance counselor Dan Lucier studies hallway-mounted photos of past graduating classes at Superior High School, pointing to the teenagers who joined the military. California considers Styrofoam containers ban Restaurant owner Gary Honeycutt says a push in California's state Legislature to ban the plastic foam containers he uses to serve up takeout meals could cost him thousands of dollars in an industry where profit margins already are razor thin. About 100 evacuated as fire burns outside Yosemite About 100 people have been ordered to leave their homes as a wildfire burns outside Yosemite National Park, fire officials said Sunday. Autopsy planned for dead Yellowstone hiker Rangers investigated Saturday whether a Michigan man was the victim of a grizzly attack in Yellowstone National Park or if the bear had come upon the hiker's body after he died. Authorities readying to gauge damage in South Hurricane Irene fell short of the doomsday predictions of record-breaking storm surges in North Carolina and Virginia. Puerto Rico senator resigns in nude photo flap A Puerto Rico lawmaker has resigned following reports that explicit photos of him surfaced on an iPhone application for gays and bisexuals, the head of the U.S. territory's Senate announced Sunday. Copyright 2011 msnbc.com RSS URL: http://rss.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032524/device/rss/rss.xml

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